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15 tools to take advantage of RSS feeds

Published on June 20, 2013 in

Many have announced the death of RSS, and Google Reader’s shutdown to come may comfort them in their thoughts, but RSS is not death. As a technology, it still powers many features of big and small websites, and many still use it to get updates from their favorite sites.

Let’s take a look at some great tools using RSS and some of the cool stuff you can do with it.

6. Feed Validator

7. OPML Validator

OPML, or Outline Processor Markup Language, is an XML format used for example by Google Reader for importing/exporting feed subscriptions. With this website you can check whether your OPML file is valid or not.

8. Ping-o-Matic

Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.

9. Feedpass

A service that reformats your feed to make it more user-friendly and increase user engagement.

10. Custom Facebook feed

The Custom Facebook Feed is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display a customizable Facebook feed of any public Facebook page on your website.

11. Feedity

Feedity is a paid service that lets your create a RSS feed for any webpage instantly. Very practical for following static websites that don’t provide a feed.

12. SQL 2 RSS

The SQL2RSS script allows users to easily convert information that is stored in a database into an RSS feed, for syndication and distribution.

13. Feed Them Social

A WordPress plugin to easily add Instagram Feeds, Facebook Group Feeds, Twitter Feeds, and now YouTube Videos Feeds to any page, post or widget.

14. JS Ticker

15. RSS Writer

If you don’t have a server that is able to generate RSS feeds, then you can manually create them with RSS Writer. All you need to do is upload the XML file once you have entered your content.

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